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Dining

As I mentioned earlier, we had the opportunity to eat 24 hours a day!  Fortunately, we resisted that urge, but still managed to eat very well!  Every day, we had breakfast in the Horizon Court, the 24 hour buffet restuarant.  My normal breakfast was a bowl of fresh mixed fruit and possibly an extra slice of pineapple, possibly a small pastry, and bacon with a possible link or two of sausage.  A glass of orange juice topped it off.
 

A couple in the Horizon Court buffet dining room is looking at something below.

For lunch we sometimes ate at the Horizon again, but often picked up a pizza and once a hamburger.  We also picked up lunch a couple of times at the specialized daily buffet.
 

Every day there was a specialized buffet served at the sides of the Neptune Pool.  Here is the Chocolate Lover's special buffet!

Dinner was the real treat.  The menu always included several appitizers, soups, salads, and main courses.  There were also several selections which were always offered.  The menus were never repeated during the cruise.  Every night there was a cold fruit soup offered.  Several I had included apple, peach, and pear.  They were almost like a smoothie without the ice.  They were delicious!  I usually also had a fruit plate appetizer.  The main courses I had included among many others, New York cut steak, Beef Medalions, Monk fish and a huge lobster tail, King Crab Legs, Lobster tails and giant prawns, and a fantastic, huge prime rib.  After finishing the lobster tail and prawn dinner, our waitress asked if we would like another lobster tail - we said yes.  She brought two more complete dinners!

Then came the desert menu.  This always included some very fancy deserts.  I frequently had sorbet, with my very favorite being the dark cherry sorbet.  Other deserts included various mousses, "Love Boat" signature dessert (heart shaped cake covered in chocolate), strawberry shortcake, and other fancy cakes and souffles.
 

A fellow diner took this picture of us wearing the leis that Tanya and Jordan gave us.  We are just outside the Santa Fe dining room.
	A gentleman across the table took this picture of us in the Santa Fe dining room on one of our formal nights.

I should say a little about Laila.  Our first night in the Santa Fe Dining Room we had a waitress named Laila from Portugal.  She was excellent.  Not only did she do her serving job quickly and well, but if we ordered something she did not think was up to the standards of the other items, she would tell us and suggest an alternative.  She was always right!  Several times Rosemarie tried to be good and order the sugar free desert.  On a couple of these occasions, Laila would wrinkle her nose and emphatically say "No, that is not good.  Why don't you try xxxx".  We ate in the other two dinning rooms a couple of times, but mostly in the Santa Fe, always getting a table in Laila's area.

Towards the end of the cruise, we attended a culinary demonstration followed by a tour of the galley.  I'll put this under Dining as it was entertainment dealing with food.
 

We attended a culinary demonstration where our Executive Chef, Amedeo Scarin and our Chief Maitre d', Jose Florencio prepared several dishes on the stage of the Princess Theater.
	Following the culinary demonstration, we were given a tour of the galley.  It was amazing.  There was a special section for just about every type of food, along with many refrigerators, stoves, etc.
They are preparing fruit salads here, with a demonstraton set up in front of some of their artistic creations, such as the bird make entirely of fruit in the foreground.
	These are a couple of examples of the artwork they can create by carving watermelons.